Thursday morning I joined the AASLH Standards Team at breakfast (7:00 am!) to meet our colleagues and obtain a status report on what’s happening this third year of the project.  Cherie Cook has done an admirable job of shepherding this project along despite the daunting goal of creating a national set of graduated standards for [...]

In a session moderated by Leni Preston, Mary Alexander (author of the second edition of the newly released, Museums in Motion) noted that new technologies have long been used in museums.  Charles Wilson Peale, considered one of the museum masters of the U. S. in the early 19th century, used magic lantern shows and tableau [...]